There are about 200 senior researchers in Oxford Energy. These are listed below and can be filtered using the search bar above. You can also find the relevant contact person for a research theme by using the checkbox and selecting update.
Demand and Efficiency: energy conservation, heating decarbonisation, sustainable cooling, thermal energy storage, advanced building simulation, zero carbon climate-responsive buildings, climate-resilient cities.
Economics, Policy & Politics: Energy technologies, economics, politics, sociology and resources, and trade-offs between sustainability, affordability, reliability and security
Nuclear: Fusion
Nuclear: Environmental degradation and radiation-damage in fission and fusion reactors.
Economics, Policy & Politics: Politics and international relations of energy production and trade (governance in producer states, political distortion of energy trade), Russia and the Caspian Basin.
Earth Resources: Carbon capture and storage, oil and gas recovery, hydraulic fracture, hydrocarbon migration
Solar Energy: adoption, marketing and incentives
Storage and Vectors: Capacity planning, investment and integration with renewable energy
Transport: electric vehicles (infrastructure planning and adoption), alternative business models (e.g., car sharing)
Demand and Efficiency: Distributed energy management in building networks. Optimal charging control of electric vehicles.
Energy Networks: Stochastic optimal power flow and unit commitment
Energy Economics: Pricing in demand response mechanisms
Nuclear: Materials degradation and materials for Generation IV fission and fusion.
Contact person Nuclear
Earth Resources: Foundations for offshore structures
Wind and Marine: Subsea pipe-soil interaction.
Earth Resources: Geothermal energy, fluid tracing, hydrothermal fluid geochemistry
Solar: Photocatalysis, organic photovoltaics
Demand and Efficiency: Organic semiconductors
Transport: electric motors, power train, well to wheels analysis
Energy Networks: monitoring stress on the grid
Storage and Vectors: thermal
Emerging Economies: smart user-centric local systems
Solar: Oxygen formation, hydrogen evolution
Electrification
Economic Growth
Reliability
Pollution
Storage and Transport
Demand and Efficiency
Energy Networks: storage for potential applications to grids in response to increasing penetration of renewables
Nuclear: Atom probe characterization of structural materials for fission and fusion reactors
Solar: Atom probe characterization of photovoltaic devices
